Hugues Hiegel
R&D Linux Expert Engineer at Orange Business Services
Rennes, Brittany, France
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Top SchoolHugues Hiegel is an R&D Linux expert engineer based in Rennes with 18 years of experience designing and shipping embedded and Debian-based Linux systems. He specializes in Buildroot and embedded boot optimization—having led boot-up benchmark work that cut startup time by 30–50%—and routinely combines C/C++ and Python development with CI tooling and Git migrations. He architects reproducible R&D platforms (Proxmox, Debian, containers, mirrors) and has built bespoke tooling for Jenkins workflows and third‑party component tracking. A pragmatic Agile evangelist and team coach, he pairs low-level Unix expertise with systems-level integration and operationalization. Notably, he emphasizes teaching colleagues how to understand tools (like Git) rather than just use them, improving long-term team capability.
18 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of science, Mathematics, Bachelor of science, Mathematics at Lycée privé St-Erembert - Saint-Germain-en-LayeMaster's Degree, Embedded Linux systems, Master's Degree, Embedded Linux systems at EPITA: Ingénierie Informatique
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
linux6
network-interface6
stream2
debian2
busybox2
embedded-linux1
embedded1
build-system1
android1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
hugues/dotvim
Nov 2007 - Jun 2019
Contributions:145 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 11 years 9 months
hugues/zdotdir
Aug 2007 - Nov 2018
Zsh dotfiles
Contributions:2 reviews, 673 commits, 1 PR in 11 years 4 months
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